2024 U-PLAY Spring Holiday Events

Explore, play, and create with U-PLAY’s biggest lineup of spring holiday events yet! From exciting sports and creative crafts to llama visits and drawing taniwha, there’s something for every child to enjoy. Don’t miss out on the fun—get your event brochure today and stay in the loop!

We’re going green! From this spring onwards, our brochures won’t be delivered to local schools and kindergartens. Instead, you can grab your copy at any of our Upper Hutt Libraries, Civic Building, or Whirinaki Whare Taonga.

Alternatively, you can sign up for our quarterly email to receive U-PLAY event updates directly in your inbox!

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Upcoming U-PLAY events

All upcoming events are now updated. Some of the events are by registration only, so please click on the event and follow the link to register for those events. 

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Beyond the Page: Writing Competition

Get creative over the holidays and experiment with different kinds of storytelling with our awesome writing competition! Any form of writing around the theme "exploration" will be accepted: plays, short stories, poetry, comics or anything else you can think of!

Well Made Craft Festival

Well Made Craft Festival will be a day filled with creativity and crafting events. Stalls, demos, workshops, and more.

Beyond the Page: Did Māui Really Hit the Sun?

Did the famously cheeky Māui really hit Tama Nui Te Ra, the mighty Sun? Join professional musician and kapa haka expert Matiu Te Huki for this theatrical journey of adventure that takes a new look at one of Aotearoa's best-known stories.

U-PLAY: JT's Dance Jam

A dance fitness class for all who love music & movement! Get ready for some fist pumping fun with JT's Dance Jam!

Sunday Strum

Join us for a ukulele jam session. Beginners to advanced players, ages 5 to 95, all welcome. Entry by donation.